Economic Justice and Resisting Neoliberalism
MAAR Ltd.’s Toxic Operations Maize Advance Agro Refineries Limited (MAAR Ltd.), a factory producing dry starch from Maize, has allegedly been dumping untreated toxic…
Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Country Context The political situation in Sri Lanka is in flux, and space for civil society is shrinking. This situation is exacerbated because Sri Lanka’s…
Economic Justice and Resisting Neoliberalism
Maize Advance Agro Refineries Limited (MAAR Ltd.) has allegedly been dumping untreated toxic industrial waste into the Ekhtiarpur canal in Habiganj’s Madhabpur Upazila,…
Economic Justice and Resisting Neoliberalism
On 13 September, almost four months after the explosion and oil spill in the Indian town of Baghjan (Tinsukia district, Assam state), experts from the company in charge…
Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Research in the Hebron region of Palestine shows its inhabitants are suffering the effects of nuclear radiation contamination – and that this radiation is almost…
Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Healthy oceans are critical for sustaining life, eliminating poverty and promoting prosperity. They also sequester carbon dioxide from our climate. Yet despite their…
Environmental Human Rights Defenders
A group of indigenous and Moro leaders has filed the 26th petition against the government-backed Anti-Terrorism Law (ATL). The petitioners, composed mostly of women,…
Environmental Human Rights Defenders
Coffee is being touted as the next ‘big thing’ in the Philippines. Yet blood has already been shed over this seemingly innocuous drink, as coffee-growing companies…
